Is there enough of an audible difference between flash and flesh?
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Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while... it's a dildo. Of course company policy is never to imply ownership in the case of a dildo. We have to use the indefinite article: a dildo, never your dildo.
-- Fight Club

That is simple, Fleshlight is a product and would be an uppercase at the start while flashlight is lowercase at the start ... simple π
Not necessarily. Is fleshlight an actual brand or the general name of the product?Because if there's other brands all labeled as "fleshlight" then it's lower case.
Like dildo is lower case because that's the general name, there's no Dildo brand Dildo as far as I've seen.
lol I was making a bad joke about how it's all uppercase regardless so my advice is completely useless
you do have a point though ... we take name brands sometimes and put it into our regular lexicon many times I think xerox is a good example as well.
Xerox the first aid instructions about putting Vaseline under your Band-Aid and wiping away the excess with a Kleenex before securing with Bubble Wrap. Then you can return to playing Frisbee on your Jet Ski. Remember to bring your Thermos (you can secure it with Velcro and remind yourself with a Post It). Get all the trash to the Dumpster when you're done.
That is indeed my flushlight!
i want to know how he got the question mark up there
Is it too late to ask the host if the category is tools, or toys?
what is the problem with saying: is this your flashlight?
Not sure if joking or u really don't know what the other word is lol
Um flashlight? That's what Americans call torches, right? Even though they don't flash and are usually a constant beam...
Here I was about to suggest that there might be a water-saving Welsh toilet product spelled "flwshlight", but they spell "flush" as "fflysi...", (which is basically a borrowing from English with Welsh orthography) so "flwsh" would be highly non-standard (and frankly smacks of a clueless Saxon aping their language... which is fairly apt as it happens, given this comment.)


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